Recruitment Software: Now and then

First Recruitment Software appeared more than 20 years ago. It was created to help HR professionals manage a ton of paperwork and spreadsheets.

In the meantime, recruiting has completely changed. Companies are now facing new challenges: finding and attracting talent.  

As a consequence, Recruitment Software now offer many new features that are designed in order to help HR professionals tackle these new challenges.

Features of a specialized Recruitment Software

There are many different Recruitment Software that offer specialized solutions for a certain recruiting challenge or a stage.

For example:

• A Recruitment Marketing Software offers a list of solutions for managing a pre-application stage of your hiring process.
• An Applicant Tracking System on the other hand offers a list of solutions for managing a post-application stage of your hiring process.

5 Must-Have Features of a Recruitment Software

However, if you want a tool that will automate, streamline and fasten your whole recruitment process, you should look for these 5 main features:

Feature #1: Finding talent

Look for a set of features that will help you source and find the best candidates:

• Automated web sourcing
• Smart search filters
• Smart sourcing algorithms
• Automated Boolean operators
• Structured employee referral programs
• Social media sourcing
• Facebook Job Tab
• Sourcing Email Templates

Feature #2: Attracting talent

Look for a set of features that will help you attract candidates and encourage them to apply:

• Branded, multilingual, mobile-friendly career sites
• Customizable application forms
• Career Blogs and Employee testimonial pages
• Search Engine Optimization
• Social Media Recruitment
• Customizable job description templates
• Automated job ad distribution
• Talent Networks

Feature #3: Engaging talent

Look for a set of features that will help you build relationships with candidates and keep them engaged:

• Talent Pools
• Targeted email campaigns
• Automated invitations to your events, workshops and meetups
• Candidate Surveys
• Candidate engagement levels
• Candidate Relationship Management (CRM) email templates
• Video communication

Feature #4: Selecting the best candidates

Look for a set of features that will help you organize and automate your selection process:

• Rich candidate profiles
• Searchable database
• Applicant evaluation scorecards
• Automated resume screening and parsing
• Automated interview scheduling
• Customizable recruiting email templates
• Automated email responses
• Interview kits and scorecards

Feature #5: Analytics

Look for a set of features that will help you track and measure your whole recruiting process:

Automatically tracking the most important hiring metrics such as:

• Recruiting Marketing metrics
• Candidate engagement metrics
• Time-to-hire
• Cost-to-hire
• Applicants-per-source
• Offer acceptance rate
• Hires per recruiter
• Creating, exporting and sharing reports.